Amid polls, PM Modi launches Janman Scheme, Sankalp Yatra
Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched two ambitious initiatives to mark the Jan Jatiya Gaurav Diwas, celebrated on November 15 every year on the birth anniversary of tribal icon Birsa Munda. PM Janman, aimed at social justice to the tribals with a budget allocation of ₹24,000 crore as well as the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra — a drive to create awareness and facilitate saturation of welfare schemes that will continue till January 26 across the country — were launched by the PM at Kunti in Jharkhand.
Modi also released the 15th instalment of PM-KISAN funds to farmers.
Speaking on the occasion, the PM emphasised that there are four (Amrit Stambhs) pillars in our society — farmers, women, youth, neo-middle class and poor — and strengthening them is necessary to achieve the goal of making India a developed nation by 2047. He also laid the foundation stone and dedicated to the nation multiple development projects in Jharkhand worth ₹7,200 crore in sectors like rail, road, education, coal, petroleum and natural gas.
The PM Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan (PM-Janman) will work towards protection and nurturing of tribes — some of them living in remote jungles — which are on the verge of extinction.
He informed that the budget for tribal welfare has been increased by six times since he took office. Under PM Janman, the government has identified 75 tribal communities and primitive tribes with a population of lakhs who reside in more than 22,000 villages in the country.
«Earlier governments did the work of connecting the figures, but I want to connect the lives, not the figures. PM Janman has started today with this aim,» the PM said.
Underscoring the difference in approach between previous regimes and his government since 2014,
